Post by vintagecomics on Aug 10, 2023 14:13:23 GMT -8
To anyone following the Chinese Corruption controversy in Canada (and it is REAL - this isn't a conspiracy theory), over the lsat year opposition Ministers to the PM are accusing the Chinese Communist Party of China in influencing our elections in favor of Trudeau in 2016 and 2020.
There is concern that this was done because the PM may be favored by the CCP.
Since this narrative has started to unfold, several things have happened.
A parliament MP has stepped down after being investigated for targeting by the CCP.
This same MP was accused of pressuring the government in favor of the CCP while in parliament.
The Canadian Liberal party launched an "investigation" into whether there WAS any CCP interference or not, but most non-Liberal politicians rejected tne inquiry because it was being investigated by a Trudeau family friend and an ex employee of the Trudeau charity Foundation.
Well, NOW cabinet finally "acknowledges the Chinese embassy was up to hijinks. When was it we were planning to take out the garbage?”
Maybe when the Prime Minister sees fit to do so?
FOLKS, CANADA IS STILL TRYING TO FIND THE NERVE TO INVESTIGATE THE PRIME MINISTER INDEPENDENTLY.
From the article:
Cabinet yesterday for the first time acknowledged “highly suspicious and abnormal” activity in Chinese-language media targeting an Opposition MP. The Department of Foreign Affairs said while it was impossible to prove the Chinese Embassy was involved, “China’s role in the information operation is highly probable.”
“Unequivocal proof that China ordered and directed the operation is not possible to determine due to the covert nature of how social media networks are leveraged in this type of information campaign,” the department said in a statement.
The department said over a period of several days in May during federal byelection campaigns in three provinces, election monitors detected suspicious activity on the Chinese-language WeChat platform. It is the same platform implicated in a 2021 campaign alleged to have unseated a Conservative MP.
There is concern that this was done because the PM may be favored by the CCP.
Since this narrative has started to unfold, several things have happened.
A parliament MP has stepped down after being investigated for targeting by the CCP.
This same MP was accused of pressuring the government in favor of the CCP while in parliament.
The Canadian Liberal party launched an "investigation" into whether there WAS any CCP interference or not, but most non-Liberal politicians rejected tne inquiry because it was being investigated by a Trudeau family friend and an ex employee of the Trudeau charity Foundation.
Well, NOW cabinet finally "acknowledges the Chinese embassy was up to hijinks. When was it we were planning to take out the garbage?”
Maybe when the Prime Minister sees fit to do so?
FOLKS, CANADA IS STILL TRYING TO FIND THE NERVE TO INVESTIGATE THE PRIME MINISTER INDEPENDENTLY.
From the article:
Cabinet yesterday for the first time acknowledged “highly suspicious and abnormal” activity in Chinese-language media targeting an Opposition MP. The Department of Foreign Affairs said while it was impossible to prove the Chinese Embassy was involved, “China’s role in the information operation is highly probable.”
“Unequivocal proof that China ordered and directed the operation is not possible to determine due to the covert nature of how social media networks are leveraged in this type of information campaign,” the department said in a statement.
The department said over a period of several days in May during federal byelection campaigns in three provinces, election monitors detected suspicious activity on the Chinese-language WeChat platform. It is the same platform implicated in a 2021 campaign alleged to have unseated a Conservative MP.
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Cabinet yesterday for the first time acknowledged “highly suspicious and abnormal” activity in Chinese-language media targeting an Opposition MP. The Department of Foreign Affairs said while it was impossible to prove the Chinese Embassy was involved, “China’s role in the information operation is highly probable.”
“Unequivocal proof that China ordered and directed the operation is not possible to determine due to the covert nature of how social media networks are leveraged in this type of information campaign,” the department said in a statement.
The department said over a period of several days in May during federal byelection campaigns in three provinces, election monitors detected suspicious activity on the Chinese-language WeChat platform. It is the same platform implicated in a 2021 campaign alleged to have unseated a Conservative MP.
Federal monitors noted anonymous accounts that “had not previously published any news stories on Canadian politics” began posting messages slandering Conservative MP Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.) with the same false claims published at the same time. Chong was not a candidate in any of the byelections.
“The network displayed several indicators of foreign information manipulation and interference including coordinated content and timing, highly suspicious and abnormal shifts in the volume and scope of engagement and the concealment of state involvement,” said the department.
“Between May 4 and 13 a coordinated network of WeChat news accounts featured, shared and amplified a large volume false or misleading narratives about Mr. Chong,” it said. “Most of the activity was targeted at spreading false narratives about his identity including commentary and claims about his background, political stances and family heritage.”
Subsequent byelections on June 19 saw Conservative and Liberal candidates hold incumbent ridings in Portage-Lisgar, Man., Winnipeg South, Oxford, Ont. and Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Que.
Evidence at the House affairs committee earlier implicated a similar WeChat slander campaign in unseating Conservative MP Kenny Chiu (Steveston-Richmond East, B.C.) in the last general election. Chiu testified May 10 he lost by 3,477 votes to Liberal MP Parm Bains following what he described as sustained attacks claiming he was a traitor to the Motherland.
“There was a coordinated attack against me and my Party,” testified Chiu. “I gave a call to a Canadian Security Intelligence Service contact I had. They came to my campaign office and we had a meeting.”
Charles Burton, a former Canadian envoy to China and senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa think tank, testified last February 7 the WeChat campaign against MP Chiu was unmistakable. “What happened in the case of Mr. Chiu was on the same day as there was a poll that came out that showed the Conservatives might achieve a minority government, then this massive campaign of disinformation on multiple Chinese language websites directed at people in Canada appeared,” said Burton.
“There was no means to identify where the source of Chinese information in WeChat came from,” said Burton. “There was nothing in the Conservative Party or indeed within Elections Canada or even within the G7 rapid response mechanism in the Department of Foreign Affairs that was able to come to terms with this.”
Cabinet yesterday for the first time acknowledged “highly suspicious and abnormal” activity in Chinese-language media targeting an Opposition MP. The Department of Foreign Affairs said while it was impossible to prove the Chinese Embassy was involved, “China’s role in the information operation is highly probable.”
“Unequivocal proof that China ordered and directed the operation is not possible to determine due to the covert nature of how social media networks are leveraged in this type of information campaign,” the department said in a statement.
The department said over a period of several days in May during federal byelection campaigns in three provinces, election monitors detected suspicious activity on the Chinese-language WeChat platform. It is the same platform implicated in a 2021 campaign alleged to have unseated a Conservative MP.
Federal monitors noted anonymous accounts that “had not previously published any news stories on Canadian politics” began posting messages slandering Conservative MP Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.) with the same false claims published at the same time. Chong was not a candidate in any of the byelections.
“The network displayed several indicators of foreign information manipulation and interference including coordinated content and timing, highly suspicious and abnormal shifts in the volume and scope of engagement and the concealment of state involvement,” said the department.
“Between May 4 and 13 a coordinated network of WeChat news accounts featured, shared and amplified a large volume false or misleading narratives about Mr. Chong,” it said. “Most of the activity was targeted at spreading false narratives about his identity including commentary and claims about his background, political stances and family heritage.”
Subsequent byelections on June 19 saw Conservative and Liberal candidates hold incumbent ridings in Portage-Lisgar, Man., Winnipeg South, Oxford, Ont. and Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Que.
Evidence at the House affairs committee earlier implicated a similar WeChat slander campaign in unseating Conservative MP Kenny Chiu (Steveston-Richmond East, B.C.) in the last general election. Chiu testified May 10 he lost by 3,477 votes to Liberal MP Parm Bains following what he described as sustained attacks claiming he was a traitor to the Motherland.
“There was a coordinated attack against me and my Party,” testified Chiu. “I gave a call to a Canadian Security Intelligence Service contact I had. They came to my campaign office and we had a meeting.”
Charles Burton, a former Canadian envoy to China and senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa think tank, testified last February 7 the WeChat campaign against MP Chiu was unmistakable. “What happened in the case of Mr. Chiu was on the same day as there was a poll that came out that showed the Conservatives might achieve a minority government, then this massive campaign of disinformation on multiple Chinese language websites directed at people in Canada appeared,” said Burton.
“There was no means to identify where the source of Chinese information in WeChat came from,” said Burton. “There was nothing in the Conservative Party or indeed within Elections Canada or even within the G7 rapid response mechanism in the Department of Foreign Affairs that was able to come to terms with this.”
